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SharePoint is primarily intended by Microsoft to be used to create websites and to manage information. A Digital Asset Management system is primarily intended by its creators to manage and share digital assets.
Does Microsoft have a dam?
Digizuite™ in the cloud Digizuite™ DAM supports Microsoft Azure for a cloud solution that gives you high flexibility in your operating environment. Using a cloud solution, you can create applications that run reliably and scale from 10 to 10 thousand or even 10 million users — without any additional coding.
Is OneDrive dam?
DAM isn’t a way of replacing Microsoft 365 OneDrive as a storage application. We hope you see that these two applications can complement each other. Creating and collaborating on documents, such as Word or PowerPoint is a breeze when you work within a Microsoft 365 environment and storing and sharing from OneDrive.
SharePoint has many virtues and capabilities but it is not a DAM (Digital Asset Management System), MAM, ECM or any other acronym for organising your digital content. Due to the volume of digital content we are creating today and the demands to deliver that content to more platforms, the need for a way of managing this data is essential.
Turning SharePoint into a fully functioning DAM will reduce costs as the time spent finding and delivering the correct files will be cut significantly, it will also drive the adoption of SharePoint across the whole company speeding your ROI and make you more productive.
Can a SharePoint System be used for digital asset management?
Digital asset management is far broader and can be used in any place where the managing and sharing of digital assets is necessary. Here’s what both DAM and SharePoint systems do effectively: Sharing and linking assets
How does digital asset management ( DAM ) system work?
Digital asset management (DAM) systems enable you to store digital assets and assign metadata to your library of images, videos, presentations, logos, documents and other brand assets for better searchability.